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Skills for Success programme

Our Skills for Success sessions will help you whether you are tackling your first essay, preparing for exams, or writing your dissertation.

Bookings for semester 2 2025-26 now open

Skills for Success topics

We offer 24 different Skills for Success sessions, across a range of topics.

Writing Toolkit

These sessions will support your academic writing, no matter what stage of study you're at. Most run twice each semester; once online and once in-person.

Criticality

Thinking, writing, and listening critically are key to academic success. Join our workshops to discover how to develop your criticality in a range of areas.

Communication

Our communication workshops will help you engage with seminars, and successfully write and deliver presentations.

GenerativeAI

Our hands-on GenAI workshops go beyond basic prompts and output-focus to help you develop a healthy and bounded relationship with the technology.

How the sessions work

Skills for Success sessions run each semester and are suitable for all students at all levels of study.

All standalone workshops are 50 minutes long and are taught in-person on campus or online (LOIL) via Microsoft Teams.

Before signing up for a session, please make sure that the day and time do not clash with your academic timetable by checking MyTimetable.

(Please note, sessions may be cancelled at short notice if there is a low number of enrolments. If you're booked on to a workshop that we need to cancel, we'll let you know as soon as possible.)

To attend a workshop, you need to book a place in advance.

What students say about Skills for Success

In academic year 2024-25, almost 250 students attended a Skills for Success workshop and completed a post-workshop evaluation form. Of those who completed a form:

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81% would recommend the workshop to fellow students

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On average, students rated the increase in their confidence after attending a session as 4.08 out of 5

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‘Completing workshops in the first semester prepared me for the assignments in the remainder of my master's program. The sessions were an opportunity to collaborate with students from different disciplines, making it an enjoyable and beneficial experience.’
— Christy MSc Applied Clinical Psychology

Skills for Success tutorials

Alongside workshops, we also offer Skills for Success tutorials. If you're not able to make it to a session, or you would like some more personalised advice from one of our Teaching Fellows, book a tutorial to talk through any aspect of your academic success. They are available to all students, and last for 25 minutes. There is no limit on how many tutorials you can book (although you may be restricted if you book and don't turn up).

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Making the most of Skills for Success

Read student Lily's blog post about how attending Skills for Success workshops has helped her be more organised, less stressed, and on top of her assignments.

Read Lily's blog post
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Book your place in MySkills

View all available sessions in MySkills

Contact us

If you have any questions about our Skills for Success programme, please get in touch.